Something to do with open source software
Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
Open Source Software
Why do so many open source programs throw C/C++ warnings?
Seriously, I’d like to know, because this is a bit ridiculous. For all the heavily encouraged coding styles out there, nearly all the open source […]
LFS so far – why you should build i686 and x86_64 binaries
I’ve now been actively using my (Beyond) Linux from Scratch installation for about a week now, and it’s actually pretty neat to have something working […]
LFS: Installing VLC
Since the install of Linux From Scratch, one of the main issues I’ve been having is the playback of audio and video files. VLC does […]
Linux From Scratch: We Have Lift-off…
Hi Everyone, Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that […]
Getting Firefox 3.6.23 to compile under LFS
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to […]
KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
Installing glib-1.2.10 in LFS to get XMMS working
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]
LFS, pre-KDE: kdebindings and kdebase-runtime
kdebindings Are you running into the following problem when compiling kdebindings? Well, you’re probably not, because you picked a saner distribution than LFS, but here […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Errors Compiling qca-2.0.3
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo
Yeah… apparently the ability to restart or shutdown your system using a normal user account from within KDE SC is not something that is installed […]
Gentoo (A.K.A. “Compiling!”)
For this version of the experiment I have chosen to try my hand at installing Gentoo. Gentoo, for those who don’t know, or who weren’t […]
Linux Multimedia Studio on Ubuntu 10.04
Recently, Tyler linked me to Linux Multimedia Studio, a Fruityloops-type application for Linux. Since I’m big into music recording and production, he figured that I’d […]
Create a GStreamer powered Java media player
For something to do I decided to see if I could create a very simple Java media player. After doing some research, and finding out […]
Recovering a Corrupted Banshee Database
A couple of nights ago, I left Banshee running overnight, filling my phone with music to listen to the next day at work. Sometime during […]
How to Compile Banshee 1.9.0 on Ubuntu 10.04
Regular readers of this site will know that I’m no fan of Rhythmbox. When I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop PC, I decided […]
Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
As sort of follow-up-in-spirit to my older post I decided to share a really straight forward way to use Objective-C to build GTK+ applications. Objective-what? […]
Django Development on Ubuntu 10.04
When I’m not rocking out my ninja-like linux skillz here at The Linux Experiment, I like to spend my spare time working on SlightlySauced, a […]